Garment-supporting waist.



PATENTED NOV. 20, 190 6.

I No. 836,566.

E. DE VLIEGER.

GARMENT SUPPORTING WAIST.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 28, 1905.

THE NORRIS PETERS 50., WASHINGTON, 134C.

vide a waist having bands arranged obliqjliely thereto.

EDOUARD DE VLIEGER, OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING WAIST;

No. 836,566. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed April 28, 1905. Serial No- 257,885.

To all whom, it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, EDOUARD DE VLIEGER, l a subject of the King ofBelgium, residing at i 76 Boulevard du Nord, Brussels, in the Kingdom ofBelgium, have invented certain new I and useful Garment-SupportingWaists, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a waist having securedthereto bands of any 1 convenient material and of improved form and tothe ends of which are movably connected elastic bands.

A further object of the invention'is to progarment-supporting bandssecured thereto and with a continuous band from one side of the waistadjacent the neck and down upon the other side, with I a central bandoccupying substantially a vertical position along the back.

A further object of the invention is to provide a waist withbearing-bands arranged along the sides and across the neck and down theback, with bracing and strengthening With these and 0 er objects in Viewthe invention comprises certain novel constructions, combinations, andarrangements of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying a view in elevation of the inside of the improvedwaist shown in folded position. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of theinside of the improved waist shown in an extended position. Fig. 3 is aView in elevation of a modified form of the improved waist shown inextended position and embodying obliquelydisposed brace-bands.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views.

In its simpler form, the garment comprises a waist b, which may be withor without sleeves and is here shown for simplicity and clearness ofillustration without sleeves. T 0 one side of the waist is secured inany approved manner the bearing-bands a, extending upward along one sideacross between the neck and shoulders and downward upon the oppositeside and attached to the waist-body drawings, Figure 1 is throughout thegreater portion of its length, as from c to 0. (Shown especially in Fig.2.) The ends of the band a are turned upward to form loops d and held inadjustable position by means of slides or buckles b of any approvedform. Through the loops d are secured elastic bands f of the usual andapproved form. Along substantially the middle of the back of the arment,and extending in a normally vertica position, is a band a, having itslower end folded upward to form the loop d, similar to the loops d andsimilarly held by the slide or buckle e, the said band being secured tothe waist throughout the greater portion of its length, as from itsupper end to about the point a.

In the form shown in Fig. 3 the bands 0, and a are arranged similar tothe bands in Figs. 1 and 2, and thereto is secured strengthening-bandscomprising the bands of, secured about the edges of the armholes, withbands a extending from the said bands 0, along the shoulder-seam to andconnected with the banda. From adjacent the junction of the bands a withthe band a oblique bands a ex- 7 5 tend downwardly to and connected withthe band (1 intermediate its ends, and from adj acent each point ofjunction bands (1 extend obliquely across the back, forming a junctionwith the bands (1 at the back of the armholes. From the bands a bands aextend obliquely to the band a, forming a brace from the front side ofthe armhole to the band a. It is to be understood that the bands a and aand their several associated bands maybe secured upon 8 5 the outer sideof the garment, as shown in Fig. 1, or upon the inside of the garment,as shown in Fig. 2, but are preferably secured upon the outside ofthegarment, as shown in Fig. 3, with the ends inserted through open- 0 ingsg to position the elastic ends or bands f andf upon the inside of thewaist.

What I claim is- A waist comprising a body portion having a bearing-bandextending from the middle of 5 the back adjacent the neck downward alongeach side and securedupon each side to a point intermediate the top andbottom, a band secured along the middle of the back and secured at itstop end to the middle point In testimony whereof I name to thisspecification in the two subscribing witnesses.

EDOUARD D Witnesses:

A. GRAEF, GREGORY PHELAN.

have signed my presence of E VLIEGER.

